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Old 20th Jan 2021, 09:42
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Film V1's shooting from a submarine ?

In lockdown watched this morning a film "The Flying Missile" B & W with Glenn Ford, usual gung ho etc but it showed genuine footage of American marked V1's fitted with small rocket packs at the rear under the fuselage being launched from US submarines, the launch strop & rocket packs jettisoning after launch after pulse jet working, any ideas as to how - why -what reason ?, looks like they were then lost when engine stopped and fell into sea, now seems an awful waste or are there enough genuine V1's left in museums etc.
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